Christmas Joys Brighten Monroe Social Scene
Readers recall festive season scenes in Monroe as shops show a moving Santa Claus on DeSiard Street. The D. B. S. host holiday events at Riverside Country Club with James Caveness and Clarice Roan headlining. Pages note gifts, balls, tea dances, and social visits as residents anticipate Christmas celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star of Bethlehem
Santa Claus
DeSiard Street
Monroe
Nicholas
Riverside Country Club
James Caveness
Clarice Roan
Riverside
Phi Kapa’s
Theirginia
John
Helen ‘Bherrouse
Erside
G Bert
Joseph Biedenharns
de Jeuner
Louise
Europe
Russian Music Heard in Fine Arts Program
Fine Arts club led by Miss Juanita Porter presented a Russian Arts program last Monday night with Vocal solos by Mrs. Bern Stern and Mrs. Henry Mayo. Mrs. H. H. Douglas and Miss Mamie Ola Heard gave papers on Russian composers and life. Instrumental numbers featured piano and flute pieces, a quartet, and vocal solos including The Sleigh and Volga Boatman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fine Arts Club
Juanita Porter
Volga Boatman
Bern Stern
H. H. Douglas
Lindow
Lila Scogin
Dark Eyes
Lassie
Henry Mayo
Ivan Chouktse
Mamie Ola Heard
Rose
Rinsky-Kowalski
Alfred Hennen
Russian National Air
Lwoff
Maude White
J. P. Royce
Marion Gilliland
D. P. Gerald
Rinsky - Korsakoff
Beatrice Skirvin
Kountz
D. X. Ellett
Federation of Women's Clubs Pays Tribute to Departed Members
The Louisiana Federation of Women's Clubs holds its annual memorial service listing members who died last year. The scroll names Agnes Morris Margaret Barth Gordon A A Forsythe A A Green Pearl Haynes Haspel Hauffman Kannes Kaufman Lemle Marshall Murphy Puckett Peterson Dinkelspeil Dyck Dinkelspeil Richards etc. Also noted are Mr. and Mrs. Fensky Terzia returning from Jackson, Louisiana, where they were summoned by Mrs Terzia's ill mother Mrs. M L Wren whose condition has improved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Douglas
Julius Freihan
A. A. Forsythe
A. A. Green
Fred Goldsmith
Pearl Haynes
I.L. Haspel
Esther Hauffman
L. N. Kannes
Charles Kaufman
Bill Lemle
Florence Marshall
Mabel Murphy
Morris Newman
Katherine V. Puckett
A. E. Peterson
E. D. McCallum
Sallie W. Richardson
Michael Lieb
W. E. Stephens
Sol Stern
Sarah Turner
Alonzo Woodville
Georgia Wilcox Gentry
Local Theater Draws Cast With Notables In Portraits
Miss Regina Moffett stars as the feminine lead in Out of the Night at the junior college auditorium Thursday night. The photos feature Mrs. Frank Hill of Paducan and Elaine Rester, a senior at Ouachita parish high school and Delta Beta Sigma member who cheered for the local football team. Mrs. C. L. Mengis leads the American Legion auxiliary and attended a Baton Rouge conference after a city visit. Portraits by Hollywood Studio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina Moffett
Little Theater
Junior College Auditorium
Frank Hill
Paducan
Harry Newhall
Elaine Rester
American Legion Auxiliary
Christmas Time Helps Monroe Children This Year
The Good Fellows of Monroe expand a Christmas program to aid needy children with toy and food baskets amid higher demand and fewer volunteers. Readers are urged to designate families, and the Morning World provides a clearinghouse to match donors with one or more eligible households. Each family is visited to determine needs before assignments.
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Wordsworth
Monroe
Morning World
Good Fellows
Santa Claus
Star of Bethlehem
Kingdom of Heaven
Bers
America
U. S. Ay
Mary E. Woolley
Mount Holyoke College
Thompson Wood Lee Auxiliary Unit Reports Strong Year
Thompson Wood Lee auxiliary members met Thursday night for the regular monthly gathering and annual officer elections for 1934. The relief committee reported alleviating suffering with grocery baskets and fruit for Thanksgiving, plus prior aid to a family with sheets clothing and money, and a funeral transport by a member’s car. Cards of thanks were read and letters from city high schools and parish high principals regarding medals were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson Wood Lee
U. S. W. Veterans
Mamie Arnette
Thaaksey
Miss Purdy Weds Mr. Houston in Lake Charles Ceremony
Miss Edith Purdy daughter of Mr and Mrs Jacob Purdy and Mr Samuel H Houston Jr of New Orleans wed at Episcopal Lake Charles church with rector David E Holt officiating. Attendants wore velvet gowns, brides maid wore white bonnet. Reception featured chrysanthemums ivy roses and white lilies. After honeymoon to Beau mont Houston and San Antonio they will reside in Lake Charles. Also announced: Rene Als on son of Mr and Mrs C A Stuckey born December third.
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Ce Episcopal
Lake Flovidence
Edith Purdy
Jacob Carmen Purdy
Samuel Hewry Houston, Jr
New Orleans
David E. Holt
Thebride
Edna Gilfoil
C. J. Wyly
Houston
Minis
Reginald E. Watson
San Antonio
Tex
Charles Webber
Baton Rouge
Messers
Carmen
Devall Purdy
W. C. Purdy
Lillian Dicks Purdy
Tallulah
Walter Craddock
Jane
Hammond
Henry Comer
Sue Comer
Vicksburg
Mary Webber Champagne
W. H. Houston
J. F. Montgomery
Bastro
Home Building and Ownership Uplifts Book Club
Mrs. J. D. Petty delivered a detailed talk on home building and home ownership to Welcome Branch of the Twentieth Century Book Club at the Monroe hotel. She urged that a home is built by loving deeds, family cooperation, and wise budgeting, with ownership fostering patriotism and stability, while noting the farm housing crisis and the national push to revive home ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Petty
Book Club
J. D. Petty
Twentieth Century Book Club
Monroe Hotel
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alma Summer Potts
Government Conservation
Richard Troys
Dickie
Prentice Castle
Mary
Lazy Mary
Minta Vaughan
Mr. and
Mie Tabee
Trousdale
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Miss Purdy
Mr. Haaston
C A. Stuckey
Rene Alson
C. L.mengis
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